Splitting for integer tilings and the Coven-Meyerowitz tiling conditions

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Authors Izabella Łaba, Itay Londner

Publication date 24 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Finite abelian groups (20K01)

Abstract: Suppose that a finite set $AsubsetmathbbZ$ tiles the integers by translations. By periodicity, any such tiling is equivalent to a factorization $AoplusB=mathbb{Z}_M$ of a finite cyclic group. We are interested in investigating the structure of such tilings, and in particular in a tentative characterization of finite tiles proposed by Coven and Meyerowitz. Building on our earlier work in [24], [25], we prove that the Coven-Meyerowitz condition (T2) holds for all integer tilings of period $M=(p_i{p}_j{p}_k{)}^2$, where $p_i,p_j,p_k$ are distinct primes. This extends the main result of our earlier paper, where we assumed that $M$ is odd. We also provide a new combinatorial interpretation of some of the main tools of [24], [25], and introduce a new method based on splitting. In addition to applications in the proof of (T2) in the even case, we use splitting to prove weaker structural results in cases where (T2) is not yet available.

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